By Kenneth Richard on 8. September 2016
It has by now become common practice for just about any and every unusual weather occurrence, extreme temperature anomaly, or seismic event to be somehow, someway linked to the human practice of using energy derived from fossil fuels. No hurricane, flood, drought, storm, wildfire … is spared from potential anthropogenic implication. Last week, a named hurricane […]
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By P Gosselin on 16. August 2016
German skeptic site wobleibtdieerderwaermung.de writes here on the upcoming Europe fall/winter and the unfavorable solar situation. What follows are some excerpts. ==================================== Cold North Atlantic – weak sun: Icy 100-year winter 2016/17 like 1962/63? In the first months of 2016, the North Atlantic has been significantly colder that the comparable El Niño year of 1998, and […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Oceans, Solar Sciences, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 13. August 2016
Yesterday I reported on the cold blast of polar air that had just frosted parts of Central Europe, surprising many Europeans as they stepped out of their homes early Thursday morning. Apprarently it got so cold that it even snowed down to 2000 meters (as predicted already last week). Wednesday wetteronline.de here presented a series […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 12. August 2016
A blast of polar air swept across central Europe from Wednesday through Thursday, sending temperatures tumbling to record low levels for mid August in parts of Germany. Photo: wetter.net (for illustration only) Yesterday many locations saw new all-time mid August records set for the lowest “high” recorded, with many places failing to reach 15°C. Meteorologists called […]
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By P Gosselin on 3. August 2016
What’s going on in Europe this summer? It seems this summer is getting regularly punctuated by fall-like or even winterlike weather. Snow is once again in the forecast – during the hottest time of the year! Wintry conditions forecast for some parts of the Alps next week. Photo: NTZ (not Alps region, for illustrative proposes […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 14. July 2016
UPDATE: Some Swiss mountain passes “had to be closed” Here in the north German flatlands, my wife this morning commented that it felt like fall this morning. Indeed it was a bit nippy outside. As already forecast here, snow hit the German higher elevations, but with snow falling to as low as 1500 early this […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 11. July 2016
Some predictions just couldn’t be more wrong. In the year 2000 some scientists claimed that snow and ice in the wintertime would become a thing of the past. Now today’s press release by German meteorologist Dominik Jung at Wetter.net here is forecasting snow in the mid Alps this week – at the peak of summer! […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 29. June 2016
Germany’s DWD national weather service in Offenbach has released data and results for the month of June 2016 in its latest press release. Germany and much of Europe have seen plenty of rain in June – all flying in the face of earlier computer models that warned climate change would lead to scorchingly hot summers with […]
Posted in Drought and Deserts, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 26. April 2016
This morning, even here in the North German lowlands, close to sea level, snow fell as temperatures hovered near the freezing point. Currently many Germans are struggling under snow, ice and cold as winter terminates spring for the time being. The cause: a low pressure centered over the Baltic Sea pumping in cold polar air […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 24. April 2016
You gotta wonder what President Obama will be thinking when he visits the northern city of Hanover later today. Ironically the US global warming president may be confronted with snow tomorrow morning as he gets set to pitch further steps with regards to TTIP and global warming to Chancellor Angela Merkel. Temperature anomalies of more […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 21. April 2016
So far this week where I live here in the North German flatlands people have woken up to surface frost three times already. And although temperatures are forecast to be pleasant today under sunny conditions, the temperature will drop rapidly come weekend. Source: http://www.wetteronline.de/ Joe Bastardi at his Daily Update here says it’s going to get “as […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 19. April 2016
Not only should we be concerned about the overall cooling that is now in the works for the globe, as we reported here, but for those of us in Central Europe we can now forget about getting out the sundry summer items for at least another week. The frost on my car’s windshield yesterday morning […]
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